Can advanced manufacturing processes themselves be the source of disruptive innovation?
A high-profile start-up company in the hotly-contested lithium-ion battery space things they can. 24M—the founders were behind lithium-ion start-up flameout A123—has…
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Can advanced manufacturing processes themselves be the source of disruptive innovation?
A high-profile start-up company in the hotly-contested lithium-ion… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/discussion/advanced-manufacturing-disruptive-innovation/

Where are your new employees going to come from over the next five years? What will they seek from a manufacturing career? How do you retain them? And what kind of jobs will they want to do? Could rapid technology adoption, more collaborative decision-mak…
Where are your new employees going to come from over the next five years? What will they seek from a manufacturing career? How do you retain them? And what kind of jobs will they … http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/attracting-manufacturings-next-generation/

What if you could create a physical space where out-of-the-box thinkers from a variety of engineering- and design-related disciplines could easily collaborate and fail freely on the way to creating new things and ideas?
That’s the concept behind New Lab,…
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What if you could create a physical space where out-of-the-box thinkers from a variety of engineering- and design-related disciplines could easily collaborat… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/discussion/creating-nexus-collaborative-innovation/

If manufacturers want to attract, engage, and retain the best and the brightest of the Millennial Generation, they need to do a better job of embracing collaboration, and they need to be prepared to give Millennials a wide range of on-the-job experiences …
If manufacturers want to attract, engage, and retain the best and the brightest of the Millennial Generation, they need to do a better job of embracing collaboration, and they nee… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/millennials-manufacturers-get-better-collaboration/

Modbot Founder Adam Ellison presents his vision of the future of robotics in manufacturing--think modular, ubiquitous, and connected.
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Adam Ellison, who founded modular robot maker Modbot, thinks the robotics industry is ripe for disruption. At the Manufacturing Leadership Summit's final aft… http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/discussion/future-robotics-modular/

Today’s pace and scale of change across the high-tech manufacturing is a once-in-a-century transformation. The resulting convergence and disruption, affecting every corner of the manufacturing sector, is profoundly and permanently altering the industrial …
Today’s pace and scale of change across the high-tech manufacturing is a once-in-a-century transformation. The resulting convergence and disruption, affecting every corner of the … http://visionary-it.gilcommunity.com/blog/manufacturing-transformation-product-experience/